Cable group: Net neutrality rules for Netflix! (But not for us)

Netflix shouldn't be allowed to throttle itself, small cable companies tell FCC.

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Huh. Seems pretty simple to me:

Anyone generating and serving up content is free to distribute said content at any bitrate for any reason whatsoever.

Done. ISP's, you are free to follow suit with anything you generate and host as well. But please note that that does not give you any rights to block, promote, slow down, or in any way interfere with bits you don't generate and host.

So if Netflix wants to slow down their bits that has nothing to do with NN because they are simply choosing to send THEIR content at a rate that they decide they want to serve it up at. If you have your own streaming service, that means you can serve YOUR bits at whatever rate you want. But you cannot alter their bits, nor can you charge extra for their bits nor can you give yours away for free.

 

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mderin[/url]":20b5p94e]

bvz_1[/url]":20b5p94e]Huh. Seems pretty simple to me:

Anyone generating and serving up content is free to distribute said content at any bitrate for any reason whatsoever.

Done. ISP's, you are free to follow suit with anything you generate and host as well. But please note that that does not give you any rights to block, promote, slow down, or in any way interfere with bits you don't generate and host.

So if Netflix wants to slow down their bits that has nothing to do with NN because they are simply choosing to send THEIR content at a rate that they decide they want to serve it up at. If you have your own streaming service, that means you can serve YOUR bits at whatever rate you want. But you cannot alter their bits, nor can you charge extra for their bits nor can you give yours away for free.

No, they aren't free to do that. A major of the original net neutrality complaint was that companies who are both content generators and ISPs (e.g. almost every major ISP) would serve content they "generate and host" at different rates than other content.

Besides, the current complaint isn't that Netflix is sending traffic at a rate of their choosing, it's that they are sending traffic through different ISPs at different rates. And they've been doing it for *5 years*. Remember last year when you were frothing at the mouth about all of those charts showing slower data rates to Netflix? Those evil ISPs! Oh wait, it was them doing the throttling all along.

Ars readers stan so hard for Netflix. It's sad. Bonus points for being an Editor's Pick while being so hilariously wrong.

No, the complaint was that ISP's were throttling data that they didn't generate (I. E. Other people's data). You admit as much in your own post when you say:

"companies who are both content generators and ISPs (e.g. almost every major ISP) would serve content they "generate and host" at different rates than other content."

By definition content that is "other" than content that they "generate and host" is other people's content. I. E. Not their own shit.

Not one single complaint about network neutrality was that the ISP's DID NOT touch the data rates of data that they didn't own but DID throttle data that they themselves created.

And you might want to fact check yourself a little too. I remember the froth! The issues about low data rates was for ISP's, not for wireless. But... (wait for it)... Netflix throttled data for wireless carriers, not "regular" ISP's.

Glad to hear that I was hilarious though. Maybe I brightened your morning?